Kevin,
Hard to believe it's been over 2 1/2 years since you wrote this. Come a long way! I just started playing with the latest version on my MacBook. All of my .tivo files are downloaded to a MacMini external drive. When I select files I can only see drives connected to my machine. Is there any way to access files across the network?

I am having a little issue that I hope someone can help with. I am running kmttg_v0p7q with the latest java version. My OS is Windows 7 64bit (2.53 GHz core 2 duo CPU and 4GB of RAM). I am running into an issue where most shows I transfer complete fine and the encode completes, but at some point while playing back the encoded file the video freezes, but the audio continues. I am using the "hb_appletv" profile since the "ff" profiles seem to have audio sync issues.

I only run kmttg when doing the transfer/encode. I have restarted both the TiVo Premiere and the PC with the same problem. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I would be most appreciative.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Kevin,
Hard to believe it's been over 2 1/2 years since you wrote this. Come a long way! I just started playing with the latest version on my MacBook. All of my .tivo files are downloaded to a MacMini external drive. When I select files I can only see drives connected to my machine. Is there any way to access files across the network?

Thanks!
Anthony

Not familiar with Mac OS but if it's anything like linux/unix NFS mounts then they are all available starting from the root directory "/".

I am having a little issue that I hope someone can help with. I am running kmttg_v0p7q with the latest java version. My OS is Windows 7 64bit (2.53 GHz core 2 duo CPU and 4GB of RAM). I am running into an issue where most shows I transfer complete fine and the encode complete, but at some point while playing back the encoded file the video freezes, but the audio continues. I am using the "hb_appletv" profile since the "ff" profiles seem to have audio sync issues.

I only run kmttg when doing the transfer/encode. I have restarted both the TiVo Premiere and the PC with the same problem. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I would be most appreciative.

Thanks.

What are you playing back on? If you try a different device or application for playback is the problem still there? (i.e. If only 1 device has issue then it's decoder issue for that device).

I thought the same thing so I've tried VLC and Media Player Classic - Home Cinema on two different PCs. I've also tried different profiles. Still having the same issue.

Then it's likely an issue with the source recording that needs to be fixed before encoding. Only good solution I know for fixing issues with source recording is VideoRedo QSFix which of course is Windows only. (The fact you mentioned encoding with ffmpeg results in A/V sync issues also points to timestamp problems in the source).

Then it's likely an issue with the source recording that needs to be fixed before encoding. Only good solution I know for fixing issues with source recording is VideoRedo QSFix which of course is Windows only. (The fact you mentioned encoding with ffmpeg results in A/V sync issues also points to timestamp problems in the source).

So that means I have to purchase VideoReDo? If so, which product?

Thanks.

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So that means I have to purchase VideoReDo? If so, which product?
Thanks.

They have fully functional trial versions to see if it can actually help you before you commit to purchase. The $50 VideoRedo Plus is sufficient for QS Fix purposes. If you do try it out be sure to complete the free trial registration before using to get a fully functional copy. http://www.videoredo.com/en/ProductPlus.htm
If you try it within kmttg make sure you run VideoRedo GUI at least once as administrator so that it registers proper components in registry needed to run in batch/COM mode that kmttg uses.

They have fully functional trial versions to see if it can actually help you before you commit to purchase. The $50 VideoRedo Plus is sufficient for QS Fix purposes. If you do try it out be sure to complete the free trial registration before using to get a fully functional copy. http://www.videoredo.com/en/ProductPlus.htm
If you try it within kmttg make sure you run VideoRedo GUI at least once as administrator so that it registers proper components in registry needed to run in batch/COM mode that kmttg uses.

I'll give that a shot. Are there any special settings I need to apply in VideoRedo for this to work?

Thanks again!

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I'll give that a shot. Are there any special settings I need to apply in VideoRedo for this to work?

Thanks again!

No. You can run QS Fix manually in VRD GUI from Tools pulldown menu or you can run via kmttg QS Fix task. As I mentioned if running via kmttg you should first bring up the VRD GUI at least once as administrator (use "run as administrator") to make sure the registry is updated appropriately.

I recently been transferring some .MP4 to my THD, about 450megs each. When I pulled from the Tivo, it takes a long while and end up with the show info showing the size around 2gb. Then, I pushed with Kmttg and the Tivo shows it as 450 megs as the original file.

I recently been transferring some .MP4 to my THD, about 450megs each. When I pulled from the Tivo, it takes a long while and end up with the show info showing the size around 2gb. Then, I pushed with Kmttg and the Tivo shows it as 450 megs as the original file.

That's because pull operations only support mpeg2 program stream format, so mp4 files have to be transcoded to mpeg2 on the fly during transfer which slows things down and makes file pushed to TiVo bigger. On the other hand compatible mp4 files pushed to TiVos are just transferred as is without transcoding. i.e. The key to remember is pull always requires mpeg2, push can transfer certain encodings natively.

I used it fine on some files from my HD XL but this seems to be new with the file from my Premiere. I even xferred the file from my Premiere to the XL and then from the XL and got the same error. (had read something about a diff xfer protocol on the Premiere?)

I also tried another file on my Premiere and same thing. I did install the latest Tivo desktop but not sure that matters.

I used it fine on some files from my HD XL but this seems to be new with the file from my Premiere. I even xferred the file from my Premiere to the XL and then from the XL and got the same error. (had read something about a diff xfer protocol on the Premiere?)

I also tried another file on my Premiere and same thing. I did install the latest Tivo desktop but not sure that matters.

I'm trying to decode a tivo file on my PC with kmttg and get the following errors almost immediately.<snip>ts_handle_tivo_private_data failed: No error

That looks suspiciously like tivodecode thinks this is mpeg2 TS instead of mpeg2 PS file. Make sure you have TS transfers disabled in kmttg when downloading from a Premiere. tivodecode cannot handle them well and TS downloads from Premiere are buggy anyway.
i.e. Make sure following is disabled:
File-Configure-Program Options-Download TiVo files in Transport Stream format

That looks suspiciously like tivodecode thinks this is mpeg2 TS instead of mpeg2 PS file. Make sure you have TS transfers disabled in kmttg when downloading from a Premiere. tivodecode cannot handle them well and TS downloads from Premiere are buggy anyway.
i.e. Make sure following is disabled:
File-Configure-Program Options-Download TiVo files in Transport Stream format

Ok that option is not set but I haven't been downloading with kmttg (tried but it seems to always hang at some point), will try again. I have been downloading with tivo desktop. But I also transferred the file from the Premiere to the HD and then used tivo desktop with the HD and it still failed. Would the file have been corrupted going from the Premiere to the HD too (it seemed like the HD could play it)?

Latest TiVo Desktop versions default to TS downloads but I believe very latest has option to turn that off. The current tivodecode does not work well at all with TS TiVo files so you should avoid that format if you are going to use it. VideoRedo which uses TiVoDirectShowFilter does work OK with TS downloads, but as I mentioned in general TS downloads tend to be unstable anyway and should be avoided.

Ok that option is not set but I haven't been downloading with kmttg (tried but it seems to always hang at some point), will try again. I have been downloading with tivo desktop. But I also transferred the file from the Premiere to the HD and then used tivo desktop with the HD and it still failed. Would the file have been corrupted going from the Premiere to the HD too (it seemed like the HD could play it)?

Ok I got kmttg to download the file from the Premiere and then it was able to decrypyt it!

So does Premiere have a diff video file format than a HD? Is there a problem with tivo desktop?

Latest TiVo Desktop versions default to TS downloads but I believe very latest has option to turn that off. The current tivodecode does not work well at all with TS TiVo files so you should avoid that format if you are going to use it. VideoRedo which uses TiVoDirectShowFilter does work OK with TS downloads, but as I mentioned in general TS downloads tend to be unstable anyway and should be avoided.